David Capel obituary

Cricketing all-rounder who was loyal to Northamptonshire and made 15 Test appearances for EnglandIt was 1989, another disastrous summer for English cricket. The Ashes had been lost, horribly. Half the England team were on the brink of joining a rebel tour to the pariah state of South Africa. Of those staying, the former star Ian Botham was in eclipse and there was an urgent search for a new world-beating all-rounder.As a try-out, England then sent a team of young hopefuls to the Netherlands for